192 OF THE HEART, VESSELS A, CIRCUL. &c. 



lar place eould be pointed out, at wLich they might be fiipr 

 pofed to ceafe from performing the office of veins and begin to 

 do that ofarteries» But the coats of their branchial veins, or 

 of the branches of their aorta, feem differ as much from the 

 coats of the veins which compofe their ven^ portarum or ve- 

 nae cavae, as the coats of our aorta diiFer from thofe ofour 

 venae cavae (*)♦ 



(*) Vidc Ihe Strufhire and Phijiology of Fiihes hy Ai, Monro^ 

 Edinib. 1785. fol. maximo c. tab. aen. 4^, Icones hic allega- 

 tas atque ob fumtuum moderationem omiflas Anglicae linguae 

 ignarus invenict in vcrfionc germanica circumcifa, ab I. G« 

 Schncidero cuni annotationibus edita Lipfiae 1787. in 4. c, 

 tab. aen. 



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